HIGH-END SERIES MADE IN NRW

High-end series are the format of the times and as such a central genre of the funding scheme of the Film- and Medienstiftung NRW.

Currently, five such series are in special focus: PERFUME, the six-part crime series by Philipp Kadelbach and Eva Kranenburg, was shot almost entirely in North Rhine-Westphalia and will be broadcast this autumn on ZDFneo. In the early summer, the international thriller series WEST OF LIBERTY (under the direction of Barbara Eder, based on Sara Heldt’s and Donna Sharpe’s screenplay) was shot in Bonn, Essen and Cologne. Filming was underway until the end of July on the comedy series ANDERE ELTERN (direction & screenplay by Lutz Heineking Jr., in collaboration with Sabine Steyer-Violet and Sebastian Züger), which is planned to be broadcast on TNT in 2019. The third season of multi-award winning BABYLON BERLIN by Tom Tykwer, Henk Handloegten and Achim von Borries is also in development. Lars Kraume is planning the NRW shoot of his historical series EINE FRAU AM BAUHAUS (screenplay in collaboration with Judith Angerbauer) in the fall.

And last but not least: the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW is co-initiator of and, since its beginning in 2015, the main partner of the Drama Series Days program of the European Film Market during the Berlinale.